Northern Irish Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi is a painter and filmmaker. In both media, she is preoccupied with looking, to the extent of passing over onto the side of the subject in a way that can be disconcerting and yet deeply empathetic. Nashashibi's work is marked with precise references to other filmmakers and painters such as Hockney and Degas, and the filmmakers Pasolini and Chantal Akerman.
Her films are often non-linear, punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and collective histories. In her painting, sentimental or overloaded motifs such as a pair of swans or an X, intrigue us into looking at them anew, and her references to historical paintings are dives into the past to bring back new experiences.
Rosalind Nashashibi (1973, London, UK) received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK) after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK) where she received her MFA. As part of her Master's degree, Nashashibi participated in a three-month exchange program in Valencia, California (US) at CalArts in 2000. In 2020, Nashashibi became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK), after the program was re-established.
She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale (IT). Her work has been included in Documenta14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. She was the first woman to win the Beck's Futures prize in 2003 and in 2024, Nashashibi was one of six artists shortlisted for The Film London Jarman Award. In 2025, the artist participated in the group exhibition a hand that is all hands combined, at the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (SE). Her major solo exhibition Stones at KM21, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL), is on view until May, 17, 2026.
Nashashibi has had exhibitions at venues including Melas Martinos, ARCH, Athens (GR); Musée Art Contemporain Carréd'Art, Nîmes (FR); Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (DK); Nottingham Contemporary (UK); Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); The High Line, New York, NY (US); Tate Britain, London (UK); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US); Imperial War Museum, London (UK); and ICA, London (UK). Nashashibi has participated in group exhibitions at The Wattis Institute at California College of Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA (US); Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US); Centre Georges Pompidou and Forum des Images, Paris (FR); Tate, London (UK); Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX); Whitechapel, London (UK); Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US), among others.